Beliefs and Works Raised in a nature-loving family right in a Pennsylvania farm, Rachel Carson fell in love with nature since she was little.
Her books on oceanography were Under the Sea (1941) and The Sea Around Us (1951). Her second book won the National Book Award and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for eight-six weeks. Her most important piece was Silent Spring (1962) which illustrated misconceptions and misuse of pesticides notably dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT, that could harm and kill off organisms in a food chain, including humans. Carson spent four years gathering data for the book and consulting with biologists, chemists, entomologists, and pathologists. The publication gave birth to the environmental movement and later led a presidential commissions and numerous environmental legislations, though fist faced much scrutiny and skepticism.
*Above are not the only books that she wrote.
Occupational and Socioeconomic Background Growing up simply in a rural town, Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) and earned her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932. She worked in the Bureau of Fisheries, becoming the second woman ever hired by the bureau for a permanent professional post, where she wrote and edited government publications. Carson then moved up to the position of editor-in-chief of all Fish and Wildlife service publications. Dedicating the remaining years of her life to writing, Carson resigned from government service in 1952.
Quotes "The advantages of such control over chemicals are obvious: it is relatively inexpensive, it is permanent, it leaves no poisonous residues. Yet biological control has suffered from lack of support"
"We stand now where two roads diverge.... Our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of our earth."
"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance,... when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.... It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth."
References Ralph Nader Works Cited
*Carson, Rachel, Lois Darling, and Louis Darling. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Print. "Rachel Carson Biography." Rachel Carson Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2013. <__http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cars-rac.htm__>. "Rachel Carson's Biography." The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2013. <__http://www.rachelcarson.org/Biography.aspx__>. "Rachel Carson." Scientists: Their Lives and Works. Gale, 2006. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 11 Jan. 2013.
May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania - April 14, 1964 in Silver Spring, Maryland
Social Change Movement
environmental activist
Occupation
Marine biologist, environmentalist, writer
Beliefs and Works
Raised in a nature-loving family right in a Pennsylvania farm, Rachel Carson fell in love with nature since she was little.
Her books on oceanography were Under the Sea (1941) and The Sea Around Us (1951). Her second book won the National Book Award and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for eight-six weeks. Her most important piece was Silent Spring (1962) which illustrated misconceptions and misuse of pesticides notably dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT, that could harm and kill off organisms in a food chain, including humans. Carson spent four years gathering data for the book and consulting with biologists, chemists, entomologists, and pathologists. The publication gave birth to the environmental movement and later led a presidential commissions and numerous environmental legislations, though fist faced much scrutiny and skepticism.
*Above are not the only books that she wrote.
Occupational and Socioeconomic Background
Growing up simply in a rural town, Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) and earned her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932. She worked in the Bureau of Fisheries, becoming the second woman ever hired by the bureau for a permanent professional post, where she wrote and edited government publications. Carson then moved up to the position of editor-in-chief of all Fish and Wildlife service publications. Dedicating the remaining years of her life to writing, Carson resigned from government service in 1952.
Quotes
"The advantages of such control over chemicals are obvious: it is relatively inexpensive, it is permanent, it leaves no poisonous residues. Yet biological control has suffered from lack of support"
"We stand now where two roads diverge.... Our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of our earth."
"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance,... when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.... It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth."
References
Ralph Nader
Works Cited
*Carson, Rachel, Lois Darling, and Louis Darling. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Print.
"Rachel Carson Biography." Rachel Carson Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2013. <__http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cars-rac.htm__>.
"Rachel Carson's Biography." The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2013. <__http://www.rachelcarson.org/Biography.aspx__>.
"Rachel Carson." Scientists: Their Lives and Works. Gale, 2006. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 11 Jan. 2013.